County: Mayo Site name: BALLINROBE: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0041
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 519073m, N 764461m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.623704, -9.223343
Pre-development testing was carried out between 15 and 23 January 2004 at a site in advance of its development at Main Street, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo. Testing was necessary because the proposed development was within the archaeological constraint for Ballinrobe town (SMR 118:22).
The testing comprised the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, which measured 4m, 3.5m, 16m, 15.5m and 8.3m long respectively and were 1–1.8m wide and 0.1–1.8m deep. The stratigraphy revealed was rubble fills, topsoil and features (a flag floor, mortared rubble, red-brick walls, wall foundations) associated with the existing buildings on the site, above sterile natural subsoils. One of the walls contained a reused architectural fragment that was dressed with 19th-century horizontal tooling and had a stop-chamfer. Only modern artefacts were recovered.
61 An Cladrach, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
